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  • Best Practice Guides
    • Getting Started with the Guides
    • FIRST: Start with a Simple Spark
    • Starting a Community Group
      • Tips for starting groups
      • Group mission & vision
      • Setting ground rules & etiquette
    • Running a Group
      • Tips for running groups
      • Community management & engagement
      • Partnerships & sponsorship
    • Hosting Events
      • Event strategy
      • Pre-event planning checklist
      • Event facilitation
      • Larger events
      • Event marketing
      • Tips for events
    • Tools for Groups
      • Tips for community tools
      • Tools list & links
      • Survey Results (2020): Community Tools
      • Autodesk's Meetup Pro Network
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      • Tips for online groups
    • Company Practice Groups
      • Tips for company practice groups
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  1. Best Practice Guides

Starting a Community Group

Strong groups start with clear goals from leaders & by providing value to members. As you start engaging focus on listening, see where the community takes you, & see where you can take the community.

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Gauge interest with your audience & recruit co-leaders

Test and evolve your ideas with potential collaborators and group members. If you meet others that share your goals, can you enroll them as co-leaders or add them to a list of future members?

Define your group's identity, charter, and ground rules

Determine financial requirements of the group

Make the group tangible and organize your first thing

Prototype and learn with early members

Try keeping the first event small, or only inviting a handful of people to the online group. This can help you build out the initial content and engagement norms, and you’ll learn a lot.

Promote your group more broadly, and seek to do more

With a strong foundation of initial engagement and enrolled leadership, you have the start of a healthy group! This is a solid place to grow from. How can you build more momentum?

Legal structures: Incorporation & bank accounts

Engage to improve

Interested in starting a group? to get support in starting a group.

Have you successfully started a group about design technology? Make sure you officially to the Autodesk Group Network.

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Clarify your own goals & intentions What will you & other members get as they participate? Is it learning, relationship building, career advancement, industry innovation, regional development?

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What is the group’s , , and ? This is foundational so community members know what to expect and so leaders know how to work together.

Your group may require to host events or purchase tools. Discuss and decide how you’ll fund your activities. To help get started, see the for the Autodesk Group Network.

If your group is , when's your first event, what's it about, and who will be there? *

If your group is , where is it hosted and how and when can people start engaging?

Consider the you'll use.

Keep engaging and wayfinding with the community As your group keeps going, follow your energy and group momentum. Welcome new people, create space for ideas and conversations, and groom new leaders. See the guide.

If the group’s mission requires significant infrastructure or big events, look to organizational and financial structures early. Most groups don’t need to do this until later, if ever.

* Note that the Autodesk Group Network to any group who's interested in using it.

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